How does RoboZombie differ from Retrofit ?

[stephanenicolas]

How does RoboZombie differ from Retrofit ?

[alexandru-calinoiu]

I was wondering the same thing

[sahan]

The goals are pretty much the same for both projects, but there's a difference in the way you use some of the features.

For example, converters are segregated into serializers and deserializers and multiple types can be hierarchically defined on the endpoint interface itself. Interceptors can read the metadata for the invocation context, so for example you could process the request based on your custom annotations.

Interceptors can be passed as arguments to the request methods and they hook you into the very end of the request-processor chain. So you pretty much have the final say by scrutinizing the whole chain, altering the request using info at the point of invocation or aborting it if you wish.

A few others are: a uniform API for both request and response headers, support for passing multivalued query and form-urlencoded parameters in a Map and explicit support for 8 HTTP method types and Apache HC's entity types. Some differences in the contracts for asynchronous invocation and error handling ...etc.

The current release (1.3.3) does not offer multipart requests and there's no support for RxJava.